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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice did the group at base camp receive?
(a) To keep Beck from warming up and a doctor would be there soon.
(b) To ready Beck for a rescue sled team.
(c) To ask Beck if he wanted to be given a morphine overdose since he would die in agony otherwise.
(d) To leave Beck since he would die anyway.

2. What did the camp do when Beck arrived?
(a) Radioed down the mountain.
(b) Put him into a medical coma for carrying off the mountain.
(c) Began warming his frostbite areas.
(d) Got hot food and liquids in him.

3. Who is Anatoli Boukreev?
(a) A Russian first-time climber.
(b) A Sherpa.
(c) A Russian guide.
(d) The man who rescued Rob.

4. Whom did Rob get to talk with before he died?
(a) His pregnant wife.
(b) His three daughters.
(c) His parents.
(d) His fiance.

5. What does Beck do when he slips back into a depression after his presidency ended?
(a) He began to take drugs for the depression.
(b) He began to play tennis again.
(c) He began to rely upon Peach more.
(d) He began to hike.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Beck have trouble seeing as he descended the mountain on his second climb?

2. Where did Beck start school for the first grade?

3. What did Beck decide to do instead of suicide?

4. What did some of Beck's friends realize about Beck's climbing hobby?

5. How old was Beck when he became President in number 111?

(see the answer key)

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